Yup. I was here back in the day when the demonstrations were going on. Signs on shop windows said "No Americans welcome. You re all guilty." A friend and I walked into a restaurant and they wouldn't serve us. I told them I wasn't American (I'm Canadian) but they didn't care. I was a "big nose". I was also assaulted by two random Koreans (whom I'd never met or spoken to, or even looked at) for talking to a Korean woman outside a hof. Two guys walked up pushed her aside, beat the crap out of me and ran off. Now I'm wondering if they were inspied by PSY's lyrics and the atmosphere he helped create.

Cause when it does I'm just going heat up the pop-corn, sit back and enjoy

But this will only be recognized by small-minded, ignorant people who don't look at the whole story....yes Fox will have a field day.

What whole story? Do you mean the one where the facts of the matter were relayed to the Korean public but that didn't matter a lick to the anti-American rabble-rousers?

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P.S. I don't care what kills PSY's run, as long as it kills it but good. This song is a musical cancer. Only thing worse is listening to this annoying song get butchered on an American teenage music drama.

Can't stand the song, can't stand the video. I'm with you on this. Please let it die and let it die quickly.

Not defending the lyrics or PSY at all or saying that people shouldn't be bothered by them. But if you were here around that time then it really shouldn't come as all that big of a shock. The anti-Western, and particularly anti-American, movement was huge at the time. I never had experiences like Taylormade but I was seriously creeped out when I was trying to go to Kyobo Bookstore and found myself walking smack through the middle of one of those candlelight vigils.

Anyway, point is that tensions were very high and if PSY wasn't involved in the singing then I doubt it would have been hard to find someone else.

there will be no backlash! psy will come out and say sorry, he didn't mean, it was a marketing thing at the time, everyone was doing it to gain spirit from the fans., it was never my real intention, like Ice T doesn't really wish policeman dead, it was just a song to generate sales.
I love USA, hey come on... I studied there guys.. blar blar blar blar
please keep buying my music and let me into your country.

now you know.. if this was the other way around, and it was an American who was this over night sensation in KOREA. and then 4 months later this video surfaces where the AMerican guy said, F^#K Koreans, go and die you MOFO's bla rblar..
it would be over for that person faster than it happened!

but this being America, just like when the number one killer in American hisotry of killing innocent Americans was a Korean at a college, what did Americans do?
NOT BLAME KOREA! that's what they did
and I remember how shocked Koreans were for that, they expected USA to totally slam Korea for that.

but why?
ohh because that's what Korea would of done if an American student opened fire at Hongik and killed 22 innocent Koreans.
we would of never heard the end of it.

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